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BARONS GAMES WHINER posted:I thought that ad was pretty cool + amusing. It just reminded me that Kim Jong-un had his girlfriend executed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeHTziiFVx0
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Exclamation Marx posted:It just reminded me that Kim Jong-un had his girlfriend executed From the related links this one is always worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
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World Peace™ brought to you by LYNX® https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHYKN97u2xM
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 NPR On The Road blog posted:These brand new 100 ruble notes are in high demand at the games. Hard to tell, but I think that’s supposed to be Vladimir Putin throwing the sick method air FTW. They are so rare, the karaoke bar in our hotel treats them as if they are worth 200 rubles. #nprsochi
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clockwork automaton posted:It's black history month! I think we all know Leonard Cooper would destroy them, regardless of the category. 
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reposted from venezuela thread: On my drive to work Hanging over the Palmetto Expressway, Miami, FL.  click for huge, grainy image.
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Ai Weiwei needs to stop ruining absurdly old pottery. We can't just make more 2,000 year old urns for you to tart up with pastels, idiot.
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From the "Punk Rock Libertarians" The dolt who posted this on Facebook noted that she's "just like Rush Limbaugh." I wonder if she ever ran into Rush while he was getting his Oxford degree?
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If that's true, Rachel Maddow's indeed a hypocrite. Obviously, she's nowhere near as bad as Rush Limbaugh, but I'd wager she'd do far more good for the world if she donated that 20 million than she does preaching to the choir on MSNBC. e: Not like she can't both, clearly  Portrait of the Rush as a young man.
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  The Tea Party is out in force in southeast florida. E: What the gently caress is Glass-Steagall and why are baggers pissed about it? Schizotek fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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Wubbles posted:If that's true, Rachel Maddow's indeed a hypocrite. Obviously, she's nowhere near as bad as Rush Limbaugh, but I'd wager she'd do far more good for the world if she donated that 20 million than she does preaching to the choir on MSNBC. Well I don't think she does a lot of "eat the rich" rants on the air, and of course we don't know what she does with her resources.  Another notable Rhodes scholar
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Wubbles posted:If that's true, Rachel Maddow's indeed a hypocrite. Obviously, she's nowhere near as bad as Rush Limbaugh, but I'd wager she'd do far more good for the world if she donated that 20 million than she does preaching to the choir on MSNBC. I'm not a fan of Maddow, but if you're getting 7 millions in salary and only have a net worth of 20 millions you'd have to do some pretty significant donatin'. Also hypocrisy is a meaningless liberal propaganda term that shouldn't be taken seriously in proper political thought. Besides that, have some Maoist propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfZaJXDV8Q
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Schizotek posted:
Glass-Steagall was a financial regulation enacted after the Great Depression which placed a firewall between savings and investment banking. It was gradually worn down and depowered over the course of the 20th century until it was repealed during the Clinton administration. This repeal has been alleged to have led directly to both massive finance industry profits and the 2008 meltdown. I don't know why teabaggers want it back as it's generally seen that re-enacting it that would effectively break up large banks and deal a massive blow to Wall Street. 
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haveblue posted:I don't know why teabaggers want it back as it's generally seen that re-enacting it that would effectively break up large banks and deal a massive blow to Wall Street. I'm guessing it has to do with pages, PAGES, PAAAAAAGEEESS!!   I actually saw a sign like this in my bank when I was closing my account.
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Some comics by Franquin, for those who are familiar with Gaston: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Lagaffe#Politics.2C_activism_and_promotional_material Authors at Spirou could only go so far in expressing anything resembling politics within the magazine, and so the author of Gaston generally stuck to a gentle satire of productivity and authority. However, the pacifism and concern for the environment that formed the basis of Franquin's politics and would be expressed much more bluntly in Idées noires were already surfacing in Gaston (and Spirou et Fantasio). Very occasionally, Franquin stepped over the mark, as in an uncharacteristically angry strip where Gaston uses a toy Messerschmitt plane to strafe the whole office in protest at their (real life) appearance in the magazine's modelling column (while building the model, he says: “… and now, the swastikas. They are very popular amongst retards”). Outside of Spirou however, Franquin had a free rein, and used Gaston in promotional material for diverse organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty International. In the former, activists scare whales away from whalers by plucking the dreaded gaffophone. For the latter, Franquin produced a gut-wrenching sequence where Gaston is beaten and tortured and forced to watch M'oiselle Jeanne raped in front of him, before being sent to a prison camp. In the penultimate frame he faces capital punishment which the punters hope "serves as an example". Awaking in a sweat, Gaston shouts at the reader that "although this was a nightmare, it's happening right now around the world", urging membership. Two from idées noires:  
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The Dodd-Frank bill's length may not be an issue but what meagre power it had over bankers has already been bribed away: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-wall-street-killed-financial-reform-20120510 so while the Tea party probably want Glass-Steagal back for terrible reasons if it came back un-neutered by Wall Street lobbyists it would probably be a good thing. Nixon on a tractor
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emfive posted:
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:Yet another notable Rhodes scholar: You know what that means.....   ROTHSCHILD AGENT SPOTTED 
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I feel embarrassed to extend such a small point beyond one post, but: Cerebral Bore posted:I'm not a fan of Maddow, but if you're getting 7 millions in salary and only have a net worth of 20 millions you'd have to do some pretty significant donatin'. I suppose that's probably true, but 20 million is still quite a bit of money. It sounds pedantic, but she could get rid of that bit, too, if she's really concerned about income inequality. quote:Also hypocrisy is a meaningless liberal propaganda term that shouldn't be taken seriously in proper political thought. I can see what you're getting at: The substance of the message isn't discredited by the actions of the person who says the message. Still, Maddow hanging onto a 20 million dollar sum while complaining about income inequality doesn't reflect well on her personal ethics, and even if calling her a "hypocrite" can't invalidate those complaints (I wasn't trying to), it is an adequate insult. Besides, even if small, that 20 mil could make a tangible difference in the lives of a lot of people, so it's not like the accusation has only to do with matters of principle.  Young Rachel Maddow, apparently. e: Assuming that dumb macro is true, obviously. Looking at, like, two sources on the internet, it appears to be. Wubbles fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Feb 19, 2014 |
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haveblue posted:Glass-Steagall was a financial regulation enacted after the Great Depression which placed a firewall between savings and investment banking. It was gradually worn down and depowered over the course of the 20th century until it was repealed during the Clinton administration. This repeal has been alleged to have led directly to both massive finance industry profits and the 2008 meltdown. It looks like that first image is from the LaRouche people. They aren't teabaggers, but another fun little type of crazy.  Kshama Sawant, Socialist Alternative city council member
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ButtHate posted:Some comics by Franquin, for those who are familiar with Gaston: 
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Wubbles posted:I suppose that's probably true, but 20 million is still quite a bit of money. It sounds pedantic, but she could get rid of that bit, too, if she's really concerned about income inequality. In a nation where money is speech, I don't think the best path to fixing systemic income inequality is to have rich progressives liquidate all of their assets and give everything away. 
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bagual posted:Even in war some people just don't lose their sense of humor.  others make light of war because they are born without fear 
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Typical Pubbie posted:In a nation where money is speech, I don't think the best path to fixing systemic income inequality is to have rich progressives liquidate all of their assets and give everything away. Perhaps in some cases that's true, but I don't think Rachel Maddow, for example, would lose visibility for donating her salary. Also, I of course don't think charity is an adequate substitute for systematic wealth redistribution, but it'll have to do in a world where the government just doesn't tax the poo poo out of rich people (or, in deference to  , makes sure rich people don't exist in the first place).phew, I remembered my D&D talking points A small selection of despots in their youth:  Muammar Gadaffi  Saddam Hussein  Hosni Mubarak (I think)  Augusto Pinochet  Bashar al-Assad  The tallest boy in the picture, Isaias Afwerki (the wikipedia is actually really bad, though) Wubbles fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Feb 19, 2014 |
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Wubbles posted:
Holy poo poo, Afwerki's signature is literally a hand cracking a whip: 
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cargo cult posted:thank you for showing me this, my god. some people make light of war because they have nothing to fear 
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What happens when people with no restoration or conservation backgrounds try to "fix" historical statues.
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Wubbles posted:A bunch of dumb poo poo. You're completely missing the point. Maddow doesn't support an industry on her own and her salary is the result of her labor. The "income gap" she is criticizing is between plutocrat industrialist billionaires and their massive(ly underpaid) workforces. There is no "gap" that Maddow is a part of, unless you mean the one between her and her own bosses. I'm sure it's a big one, in the tens of millions at least, and probably more so because she is a woman. Honestly if you think that a niche media celebrity worth $20 million has any real power over the lives of many workers in this economy then you don't really understand the scale of things. Someone like that can have plenty to criticize without being a hypocrite, and really if you are going to make such a stupid argument then why care about the scale at all? "Oh you have a refrigerator, you can't complain about inequality unless you give that away!" I mean, you're basically this: 
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pillsburysoldier posted:
 She, people like her, and the whole thingy that allowed people like her to teach, probably helped 
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